The leader of Canada’s top oil-producing province vowed to fight federal efforts to cut or tax crude exports to the US as a tactic in a trade war with the incoming Trump administration.
President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico after assuming office next week. Canada’s federal government is considering cutting off energy supplies to the US or imposing tariffs exports in response, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said in a post on X.